Insights and Stories on Supply

Food retail order boom may ease after big quarter, Conagra says

Oct. 1, 2020 at 4:46 pm CDT

Reuters — Conagra Brands put better-than-expected first quarter sales on Thursday down to heavy ordering by retailers worried about the durability of supply chains in the months ahead as a second wave of coronavirus cases takes hold. Shares in the foodstuffs maker dipped as much as three per cent before […]

Feds pondering more self-reliance in Canada’s food

Sep. 28, 2020 at 1:22 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

AAFC lowers wheat carryout estimate, raises canola

Sep. 25, 2020 at 7:52 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

McDonald’s resuming all-Canadian beef supply

Aug. 13, 2020 at 8:42 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Agri-food tech expected to be a post-pandemic growth industry

May. 11, 2020 at 3:59 am CDT

By D.C. Fraser

AAFC forecasts more wheat, less canola seeded in spring

Jan. 24, 2020 at 1:41 am CST

MarketsFarm — Canada’s farmers will seed more wheat and less canola in the 2020 growing season, according to the first supply/demand estimates for the 2020-21 marketing year, released Thursday by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Total seeded wheat area is forecast to rise to 25.77 million acres, from 25.02 million the […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

U.S. propane bottlenecks not affecting Canada

Nov. 15, 2019 at 7:04 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite ongoing shortfalls of propane in some areas of the U.S. Midwest, the situation doesn’t appear to be adversely affecting Canada, according to the Canadian Propane Association. The late harvest in the Midwest has been further hampered by wet conditions, forcing farmers to dry their grain before putting […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Corn firm ahead of USDA report, frosty weather

Oct. 7, 2019 at 8:35 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn futures inched higher on Monday on position-squaring ahead of a key monthly U.S. government crop report later this week and worries about forecasts for a freeze looming for the northwestern Corn Belt, traders said. Soybeans and wheat closed lower after a choppy session. Chicago […]

By Julie Ingwersen

AAFC raises 2019-20 canola, wheat ending stocks

Sep. 24, 2019 at 2:15 am CDT

MarketsFarm — Canadian ending stocks of canola and wheat will be larger than earlier thought, according to updated supply/demand tables Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released late Friday. AAFC raised its canola ending stocks estimate for 2019-20 to a record 4.5 million tonnes, up from the August estimate of 3.775 million […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Big changes unlikely in next USDA report

Sep. 9, 2019 at 7:37 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Ahead of the next supply and demand report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, several firms have issued estimates for U.S. corn and soybean yields. USDA is scheduled to release its next world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE) Thursday at 11 a.m. CT. The report will help […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

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